Virtual Controller

Housealien · Post by **Housealien** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:05 pm

I'm looking to invest in a Virtual Controller. Has anyone heard anything about Native Instruments "Kore"? Does it only work with Native VST's or can the hardware also work with MOTU VST's? What about the Mackie MCU? Can this serve as a VST controller as well?

I want to be able to control MOTU and other VST instrument applications via hardware.

Thank you!

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:24 pm

There was a pretty long thread on Kore somewhere...

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... re&start=0

If the link doesn't work, use your search function with the following criteria:

Thread title: NI KORE with DP
Author: grimepoch

Not sure about the others, but until someone else chimes in with specific reports, check out this list of control surfaces. (I do not work for Sweetwater, btw.)

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/category/c808

drvmusic · Post by **drvmusic** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:33 pm

I'm not sure of the Kore controller capabilities outside of NI products. I would think you could use the "learn MIDI" function to make it control whatever you want.

I use one of these:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/UC33e-main.html

It has presets for some NI products, Reason, etc. built in and is generalized enough to make a comfortable controller in most situations for me. I like that it has faders, knobs, and buttons. I've carried with a laptop as a portable mix controller for DP. Versatile but not overly complex.

Housealien · Post by **Housealien** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:23 am

I appreciate your help on this matter. It looks like the Mackie C4 is the one that I need, but it does not specify if it works flawlessly with DP. It looks to be better suited with Logic or Sonar. I guess I might have to go with the Evolution. Thank you all!!!

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:38 am

I have the Kore...I do not use the Kore at the moment. It's very buggy for me, locks up my machine after being on for a day, and isn't very CPU efficient. I like it, don't get me wrong, but NI needs to get their act together and make this thing work!

I wanted it on a second machine so I could use that machine sort of like a recepter node. This is still the plan, of course, until Apple releases the node processing inside of the CoreAudio API. Then I'll hopefully just use it as a node and get rid of the Kore.

(Although I have conteplated it for live use)